“Green Man With Roses ”

NAME: Green Man with Roses:

DIMENSIONS: Approximately 36” tall.

MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Internal structure is a flexible wire armature wrapped with batting. Exterior: the batting-covered body was painted with assorted fabric dyes to give it a plant-like surface; novelty yarns and chenille were finger-woven over the batting to create a vine-like covering. The face is made of stiffened felt, painted with green and metallic fabric dyes. His cap is hand-painted velvet, adorned with leaf-shaped stone beads. The same velvet forms his bag, filled with red silk roses. Leaf-shaped stone beads dangle from his felt-leaf head, and a crystal leaf bead accents his nose. Wooden beads substitute for fingernails, glass buttons for eyes. He holds a found-wood staff.

THE INSPIRATION AND INTENTION: See the Original Green Man description for details about the mythic background for the Green Man. This Green Man is a variation on the same theme: birth, death, rebirth; vegetation, creation, regeneration. Unlike the first Green Man, however, this one is clearly a denizen of the forest: his “skin” is very bark-like in texture and covered with trailing, twisting vines, and he carries a bag of roses.

Juried into the 2007 Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta and the 2007 Art Center at Fuller Lodge (Los Alamos) show, "Bold Expressions in Clay, Fiber, and Wood."

In a private collection.